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After a spate of recent stabbings, is knife crime getting worse in Australia?
A string of high-profile stabbing incidents in Australia, including this year’s Bondi Junction attacks, the Wakeley attack on Bishop Mari Emmanuel and last year’s stabbing murder of New South Wales...
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More than 430,000 Australians could have owned their own home today – if not...
OlgaKashubin/ShutterstockThirteen years ago at the tax summit called to discuss the Henry Tax Review, David Koch stopped discussion of negative gearing dead in its tracks.Better known by many as...
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The biodiversity jukebox: how sound can boost beneficial soil microbes to...
In a race against time, scientists are exploring new ways to restore natural systems. Alongside traditional methods such as planting trees, reducing pollution and reintroducing native species, a...
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Tougher than the GFC: why NZ’s small businesses may be in worse shape than in...
With rising costs and drops in consumer spending, small businesses have been struggling lately. Continuous economic pressure is causing significant stress and burnout among small business owners, while...
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Wondering what AI actually is? Here are the 7 things it can do for you
Dacachi/ShutterstockYou know we’ve reached peak interest in artificial intelligence (AI) when Oprah Winfrey hosts a television special about it. AI is truly everywhere. And we will all have a...
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The ABC’s racism review is scathing. Can Aunty find the strength of character...
I am writing this because no one at the ABC — whose producers invited me onto their coronation coverage as a guest — has uttered one word of public support. Not one ABC executive has publicly refuted...
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Disney+ dials up the Australiana in star-studded drama Last Days of the Space...
Joel Pratley/Disney+Disney+ will add their latest Australian original to their catalogue today. The brief seems to have been to “amp up the Australianness” – and boy is it a cacophony. Last Days of the...
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Is your car a threat to national security? It can be – regardless of where...
AlinStock/ShutterstockIn April, US lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to ban Chinese-built electric vehicles (EVs), labelling them an “existential threat to the American auto industry”. The proposed...
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Ozempic’s cousin drug liraglutide is about to get cheaper. But how does it...
Halfpoint/ShutterstockFourteen years ago, the older drug cousin of semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) came onto the market. The drug, liraglutide, is sold under the brand names Victoza and...
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In a largely uneventful and inconsequential US vice presidential debate, no...
Just like vice presidents themselves, in US politics, debates don’t really matter until they do. The most recent debate (and likely the last of the 2024 election cycle) between aspiring vice presidents...
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Oil prices set to rise as Middle East tensions worsen, adding to...
Iran’s missile attack on Israel has caused global oil prices to spike this week amid growing fears a retaliation could put the global oil supply at risk. Almost one year ago to the day, I wrote how an...
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Iran’s leaders have everything to lose in a direct war with Israel. Why take...
With Iran’s firing of some 180 ballistic missiles at Israel overnight, the Middle East is again on the brink of what would be a costly, ruinous regional war. Israel and its ally, the United States,...
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‘Shrinkflation’ is the Albanese government’s next target to protect...
CHIOICE/TheConversationThe Albanese government will tackle “shrinkflation” in supermarkets and potentially other parts of the retail sector. This is where the product’s size is reduced but the price...
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OECD comparisons reveal an unflattering picture of inequality in NZ – could...
Getty ImagesRecent research showing the richest New Zealanders pay less tax than their counterparts in nine similar OECD countries raises, yet again, serious questions about wealth, equality and...
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Limestone and iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Western Australia 100,000...
Limestone pinnacles of the Nambung National Park karst.Matej LiparAlmost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These...
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How to help your child return to school after a long illness, new diagnosis...
It is very common for children to have a day or two away from school due to illness. But children can also miss much longer periods of schooling if they have a serious illness or injury.This could be a...
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Joker: Folie à Deux as ‘ruin porn’ – how the new sequel plays with...
WarnerLike two-headed playing cards, Joker stories are about dual identity, doubles and duplicity. Throughout DC comics and films, the Joker turns others into facsimiles of himself, grinning widely. He...
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More consumption, more demand for resources, more waste: why urban mining’s...
Lynda Disher/ShutterstockPollution and waste, climate change and biodiversity loss are creating a triple planetary crisis. In response, UN Environment Programme executive director Inger Andersen has...
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‘Survival sex’, ‘mob justice’ and more: the first independent study of abuse...
“Participants expected the costs of war, but they were not prepared for the costs of service,” explain Ben Wadham and James Connor in their new book, the first independent study of military...
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How can we improve public health communication for the next pandemic?...
Pexels/The ConversationThere’s a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have...
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